We Make Zines2016-12-09T17:44:28ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorganhttp://api.ning.com/files/1HLljKIeOyfavL4eddZ*kUBCeTsAPQlTpkaVoA*y5b3AvwgES87XU6geXkwxViHXBS2o1ND9m8XqAZshBiaMSAQCNWhf1lS72t0v42IzzQQ_/Me1.jpg?width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://wemakezines.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3aamyxg40v8fi&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCall for Support! Day Planner Literary Magazinetag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-12-07:2288844:Topic:4592202016-12-07T17:01:56.695ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
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<p>Recently a friend from college got a group of artists together (myself included) and we all started work on projects that would be featured in a new literary+arts magazine called Day Planner. You can check out the work from our first issue here --&gt; <a href="http://dayplannermag.com/">dayplannermag.com</a> </p>
<div><div>However we need your help to put our new zine into print! Anything helps; to make a donation please visit our kickstarter funding page here: …</div>
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<p>Recently a friend from college got a group of artists together (myself included) and we all started work on projects that would be featured in a new literary+arts magazine called Day Planner. You can check out the work from our first issue here --&gt; <a href="http://dayplannermag.com/">dayplannermag.com</a> </p>
<div><div>However we need your help to put our new zine into print! Anything helps; to make a donation please visit our kickstarter funding page here: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/802147907/day-planner-vol-1">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/802147907/day-planner-vol-1</a></div>
<div>Myself and my fellow artists hope you'll enjoy our recent work, and appreciate any and all support. Please feel free to pass the link around to anyone you feel might like to support this cause! </div>
<div>Thank you,</div>
<div>Alex Haniford</div>
<div>P.S. If anyone else needs support for their zines please feel free to link to your funding pages here, as well! </div>
</div> Feedback Wanted: Community Chapter of MAKE A ZINE booktag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-10-29:2288844:Topic:4574552016-10-29T22:38:50.232ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p><span>I am working on the 20th anniversary edition of the book Make a Zine and the one chapter that I've never been happy with how it's written is on the one on community. I'd love to include more perspectives to help getting to the heart of what makes zines so special, starting with the question: What is the one thing that you’d most like to change about the zine community?…</span></p>
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<p><span>I am working on the 20th anniversary edition of the book Make a Zine and the one chapter that I've never been happy with how it's written is on the one on community. I'd love to include more perspectives to help getting to the heart of what makes zines so special, starting with the question: What is the one thing that you’d most like to change about the zine community?</span></p>
<p><a href="https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/1202">https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/1202</a></p> Survey about zines on body norms and resistancetag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-10-25:2288844:Topic:4574252016-10-25T07:57:37.097ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>Hi, I’m a feminist zinester from Belgium and I’m also doing some DIY research into zines.</p>
<p>At the moment I’m writing an <strong>article</strong> on zines about <strong>body norms and resistance</strong>. To get a variety of voices in my article, I’m looking for zinesters to participate in a survey. If you make zines which address issues such as abortion, age(ing), body image and beauty standards, disability/ableism, gender/sexism, illness, LGBTQIA/phobia, menstruation, mental health,…</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a feminist zinester from Belgium and I’m also doing some DIY research into zines.</p>
<p>At the moment I’m writing an <strong>article</strong> on zines about <strong>body norms and resistance</strong>. To get a variety of voices in my article, I’m looking for zinesters to participate in a survey. If you make zines which address issues such as abortion, age(ing), body image and beauty standards, disability/ableism, gender/sexism, illness, LGBTQIA/phobia, menstruation, mental health, pregnancy/parenting, race/racism, sexuality, (sexual) violence, and other body-related identities/oppressions/issues or intersections of these, please get in touch!</p>
<p>The article will be published online on the website of <a href="http://www.sophia.be/">Sophia,</a> a support network for gender studies in Belgium. Last year, Sophia organised a conference called <strong>Unruly Bodies</strong> which invited researchers, activists, and artists to present their work on body norms and resistance in lectures, performances, exhibitions, and workshops. Soon, articles by those participants about their presentations will be published on their website. At the conference I set up a <a href="https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/unruly-bodies-the-zine-reading-room/">temporary zine library and zine workshop</a> and this inspired me to find out more about zines talking about body-related issues.</p>
<p>I’m especially interested in ways zines can assist in resistance against body norms and oppression. If you would like to share your views, you can let me know and send me your answers to the following questions:</p>
<p><strong>Survey</strong>:</p>
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<li>Your name, pen name or pseudonym?</li>
<li>Your preferred pronoun, age, country of residence/origin?</li>
<li>Name of your zine(s)?</li>
<li>How many zines have you made and how long have you been making zines? How did you first discover zines?</li>
<li>Why do you make zines?</li>
<li>How would you describe the zine(s) you make? Which themes/subjects do your address in your zine(s)?</li>
<li>How do you address body-related issues/identities/oppressions in your zine(s)?</li>
<li>What do you hope to achieve by making your zine(s) and writing about these issues?</li>
<li>Does the distribution, community, and readership of zines have an impact on your content?</li>
<li>Can zines be political or activist? If yes, in which way? If no, why not? Do you use your zines as a form of activism or political tool?</li>
<li>What are the advantages of zines for you as a political tool and what are their limitations?</li>
<li>Do you use digital/online media such as blogs, youtube, social media…? Can you compare how you use them to how you use zines?</li>
<li>What is your experience with reading zines which talk about body norms and resistance? Have they impacted or influenced you?</li>
<li>Would you like to add anything?</li>
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<p>I would be very grateful if you decide to participate in the questionnaire, and if you prefer, you don’t have to answer all of the questions. By answering the questions, I will assume you’re giving me permission to quote you for my article (unless you ask me not to). Please tell me if you prefer to be quoted anonymously. In case I would like to ask some additional questions or clarification of your answers, I will contact you again.</p>
<p>You can send your answers to: flapper_grrrl(at)yahoo.co.uk. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. [I’ve been having some problems with yahoo, if it doesn’t work to send mails to my yahoo address, you can mail to: ninanijsten(at)gmail.com]</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your participation!</p>
<p>More info about my own zines on my <a href="https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/">zine blog</a></p> A service to distribute zine automatically?tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-29:2288844:Topic:4566772016-09-29T12:16:30.382ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>Hi there. I run a niche website with a lot of readers, followers, etc., and I always wanted to create a zine and distribute it among them, so I think this is the best moment to do it. However, I find it really hard the distribution thing.</p>
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<p>I'd like to know if there is a service where I could upload a simple PDF and people could buy the zine directly from there? I know that this could be against the idea of zines - they have to be hand made, but I can't because I live in a 3rd…</p>
<p>Hi there. I run a niche website with a lot of readers, followers, etc., and I always wanted to create a zine and distribute it among them, so I think this is the best moment to do it. However, I find it really hard the distribution thing.</p>
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<p>I'd like to know if there is a service where I could upload a simple PDF and people could buy the zine directly from there? I know that this could be against the idea of zines - they have to be hand made, but I can't because I live in a 3rd world country and my readers are mainly from the USA and Europe, so if I made them, the shipping costs (and times) would be awful.</p>
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<p>I check websites like Blurb.com and tried with a magazine, but a 20 pages one is $3.99 (which could be fine) but the shipping costs are high. I don't need anything fancy, something in b&amp;w and photocopy quality would be fine.</p>
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<p>Thanks and sorry if this is not the place or the correct questions!</p> UK & Ireland zine directorytag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-20:2288844:Topic:4562962016-09-20T17:51:08.317ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<h3><a href="http://aas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/folding-zines.jpg"><img alt="folding-zines" class="aligncenter wp-image-331 size-full" height="405" src="http://aas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/folding-zines.jpg" width="606"></img></a></h3>
<p style="text-align: center;">Check out our new directory of zines in the UK and Ireland!- original post at <a href="http://aas.org.uk/ukzines" target="_blank">www.aas.org.uk/ukzines</a></p>
<h3>To find a a zine:</h3>
<p>Open <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10uQTuhTm_OjDXxz5iWNeS3Iykug1w7sK2gZtGPgLUiI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the spreadsheet</a>, and you can filter and…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Check out our new directory of zines in the UK and Ireland!- original post at <a href="http://aas.org.uk/ukzines" target="_blank">www.aas.org.uk/ukzines</a></p>
<h3>To find a a zine:</h3>
<p>Open <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10uQTuhTm_OjDXxz5iWNeS3Iykug1w7sK2gZtGPgLUiI/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the spreadsheet</a>, and you can filter and search each column to find the type of zines and the topics you're interested in. If you're not familiar with searching spreadsheets, hit ctrl/apple + f to search, and click on the small arrows at the top of each column to filter. Visitors can't edit the spreadsheet, only admins.</p>
<h3>To submit your zines:</h3>
<p>Fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdvwqFLxvuN5Of0gfXZxbwnahi1OmSi2OaCOszsTgaIW7wYfQ/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1" target="_blank">this form</a> for each issue, and it will automatically appear on the spreadsheet. If you notice a problem with the listings, please email info@aas.org.uk</p> Vote on WMZ's potential new looktag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-11:2288844:Topic:4559792016-09-11T19:44:50.795ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>Please take this 1 question survey:</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/ykv2d3fZGJRNR8LD2">https://goo.gl/forms/ykv2d3fZGJRNR8LD2</a></p>
<p>Please take this 1 question survey:</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/ykv2d3fZGJRNR8LD2">https://goo.gl/forms/ykv2d3fZGJRNR8LD2</a></p> We Make Zines is dead! Long live We Make Zines!tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-09:2288844:Topic:4558332016-09-09T02:49:42.077ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>HI All, </p>
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<p>If you're reading this then you the We Make Zines community is going through some changes (if you didn't know, then go read Krissy's recent posts). I volunteered to wrangle cats and take us to the promised land of our new home. </p>
<p>The only decisions that have been made at this point:</p>
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<p>1) We're not sticking with NING as a platform.</p>
<p>2) Krissy is still involved, but not taking the lead.</p>
<p>3) We have about 3 weeks to do whatever it is we're…</p>
<p>HI All, </p>
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<p>If you're reading this then you the We Make Zines community is going through some changes (if you didn't know, then go read Krissy's recent posts). I volunteered to wrangle cats and take us to the promised land of our new home. </p>
<p>The only decisions that have been made at this point:</p>
<p></p>
<p>1) We're not sticking with NING as a platform.</p>
<p>2) Krissy is still involved, but not taking the lead.</p>
<p>3) We have about 3 weeks to do whatever it is we're going to do.</p>
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<p>Now, a personal note.</p>
<p>Today has been wild. I live and work in little ol' Alpine, TX. You may have seen us in the news today. The university I work for went for total lock down due to active shooter in the area, to total evacuation due to credible bomb threat in under two hours. My library became the literal command center for a multi-departmental task force in charge of sweeping the university for explosives. I'm @quasifesto on Twitter if you want to read about my day. I'm spent. I'm gonna take a couple of mental health days before attacking this project. If you're part of the team that plans to help then get your ideas organized and be prepared to discuss why we should do whatever it is you think we should do. We're going to salvage the best parts of this site. We're going to start fresh with a new platform, and we're going to tell everyone. Think of what role you might want to fill and we'll chat after I have few drinks, a long nap... and maybe a chat with my therapist. </p>
<p>Dave</p> Zine Dissertation!tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-03:2288844:Topic:4553102016-09-03T10:31:21.922ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>(First a little about me: I am an illustration student in the South of England but I'm from the midlands/Welsh border. I've made a few zines, but mostly for the purposes of giving friends copies of my art and for projects I have worked on.)</p>
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<p>Although I'm a new member to this site, I'm sad to see that it will be closing down by next month. I'm currently in the research process for my dissertation at uni which is all about zine making and this site has proved an…</p>
<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>(First a little about me: I am an illustration student in the South of England but I'm from the midlands/Welsh border. I've made a few zines, but mostly for the purposes of giving friends copies of my art and for projects I have worked on.)</p>
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<p>Although I'm a new member to this site, I'm sad to see that it will be closing down by next month. I'm currently in the research process for my dissertation at uni which is all about zine making and this site has proved an invaluable source for research over the past few weeks, so thanks first of all!</p>
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<p>I was hoping over the coming months as my research developed and I refined the title of the essay I would be able to come to you guys for your opinions but it looks like that may not be able to happen now so I thought I'd quickly bring up a few topics that I've thought about so far and see what you guys think: </p>
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<p>(1) The price of zines: </p>
<p>Having lived close to London for the past two years I've noticed a dramatic difference in the price of zines here to where I'm from. Some zines can be up to £10 or even more in comparison to the £1-£3 zines that I'm used to. I'm conflicted on this. Often these higher priced zines may be screenpinted or something similar - so, as an illustrator, I think this is an incredibly fair price for an original screenprint (considering the aesthetic, production costs and general cost for an original print can be £40+) but as a zine reader this feels far too expensive! What do you think is reasonable? Is there a divide between the working class for whom the medium was their only choice and the upper middle class who took it on? And English creators - do you think there's a North/South divide with this too? </p>
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<p>(2) Groups/Social aspect:</p>
<p>I was also reading about the social aspect of zine making and thought this was very interesting too. I've read a few accounts - women, years ago, confined to being housewives and their only chance to socialise in the day was to have other women round to chat, create and maybe even make zines. Do you have any experience of meeting in groups to make zines? Do you think meeting up in person to create is still important when most people have access to the internet??</p>
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<p>Those are my main topics for now but let me know if you have any other thoughts! </p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Charlotte </p> List of active zinesterstag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-02:2288844:Topic:4555202016-09-02T14:57:02.605ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
<p>I'd like to get a list of active members of this community so that everyone can be contacted when a new community is established.</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/gMkTnLOHIBhKIvlc2">https://goo.gl/forms/gMkTnLOHIBhKIvlc2</a></p>
<p>The link is to a simple 2 question google form. Enter your zinester name / handle, and an email address.</p>
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<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I'd like to get a list of active members of this community so that everyone can be contacted when a new community is established.</p>
<p><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/gMkTnLOHIBhKIvlc2">https://goo.gl/forms/gMkTnLOHIBhKIvlc2</a></p>
<p>The link is to a simple 2 question google form. Enter your zinester name / handle, and an email address.</p>
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<p>Thanks.</p> HELP SAVE , WMZ -- ACTIVE MEMBERS UNITE!!!tag:wemakezines.ning.com,2016-09-02:2288844:Topic:4552542016-09-02T05:20:21.217ZBeth Mhttp://wemakezines.ning.com/profile/BethMorgan
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